The authors present their experience and practices of introducing cloud services, as a means to simplify the adoption of ICT (Information Communication and Technology) in education, using Free/Open Source Software. The solution creates a hybrid cloud infrastructure, in order to provide a pre-installed (Ubuntu and Linux Terminal Server Project) virtual machine, acting as a server inside the scho...

We report on the development of a software engineering programme for Masters students. Maintainability of educational programmes is critical: there is a large initial investment in developing quality programmes and we must ensure that these programmes are “future proof”. Consequently, we followed a traditional software engineering lifecycle process to develop a programme that would meet the cur...

The adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in educational institutions is increasing day by day. Many countries are insisting the use of FOSS in their government sectors and few are in the process of adopting FOSS strategies. The reasons for adopting FOSS are: total cost ownership, free to make copies and distribution, software legality, reliability, availability, performance, securit...

This is a position paper for the player-centred game design workshop at CHI2006 Conference. The aim is to explore the use of prototypes in educational game design. Prototyping is discussed as both a method of player-centred design and software engineering. The methods of prototyping cover evolutionary prototyping and the use of low-technology prototypes and mockups in collaboration with players...